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[Anonymous No.1935084]

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>>1932236

Post your current drawing here and give constructive critiques to others!

Please make sure your posted image is clear and is under 1500 x 1500 pixels in size.
If you want critique on a drawing from the previous thread, you can delete it there and repost in this one.

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[Anonymous No.1935116]

gonna start studying, any day now! tomorrow, for sure

[Anonymous No.1935120]

I drew this while high.

[Anonymous No.1935121]

Updated just a bit more from a few threads ago. Gonna move on at this point.

[Anonymous No.1935123]

>>1935121

i feel like trying to be painterly is holding you back.

[Anonymous No.1935124]

>>1935116
Stop working with a white background.

[Anonymous No.1935125]

>>1935120

i knew you smoke weed ever since you painted that nature viking-wizard holding 2 liquid/energy torches that turn into ships of some kind.

[Anonymous No.1935130]

>>1935123
Care to elaborate? I'm all ears.

[Anonymous No.1935131]

>>1935121
I like this

[Anonymous No.1935142]

[Anonymous No.1935143]

what can i do to draw better faces?
i think i got the proportions/anatomy/perspective okay ish

[Anonymous No.1935144]

[Anonymous No.1935146]

[Anonymous No.1935151]

>>1935144
this would be really good if you had some better edge control

[Anonymous No.1935163]

Third portrait of the day

[Anonymous No.1935171]

Beginner artist here. Muh current project. The main figure is done, the whole picture is about at 50 percent ready. I wish to add some additional dragons to the background and some old WW1-esque biplanes, because dragons vs. biplanes is awesome.

This is perhaps the second somewhat decent digital painting I actually managed to produce. Unleash your criticism. I'm ready.

[Anonymous No.1935174]

Here is a close-up.

By the way, I use Manga Studio 5 and a glorious Wacom Cintiq 24HD.

[Anonymous No.1935178]

>>1935174
She's pretty ugly but maybe that's what you were going for.

How are you liking the cintiq? I've heard mixed things.

[Anonymous No.1935180]

>>1935143 # I think you should add more detail to the hair but other than that its pretty nice, lovely style btw

[Anonymous No.1935183]

>>1935143

It looks pretty spot on, nothing major stands out as off.

Why don't you try learning how to draw some expressions? Give some more life to it beyond that Mona Lisa half-smile.

[Anonymous No.1935185]

>>1935178

Ugly? Actually, I wanted to make her pretty, but I intended to cover her face with some hair, because I still suck at drawing faces. How exactly is the poor thing ugly?

The Cintiq? Ooooh, I love it. It's one of the best things ever happened to me.

[Anonymous No.1935203]

>>1935185
She has very manly features, I honestly thought it was a man at first.

[Anonymous No.1935205]

Quick clothing study before going to bed.

[Anonymous No.1935208]

>>1935174
Cool composition, just move the tail so it's not a tangent with the landscape. There's a problem as one anon mentioned about your anatomy knowledge that takes a lot of time to improve.

[Anonymous No.1935210]

>>1935203

Only her face or the entire body? You're not the first one to say this, despite that I drew her based on a model (DAZ Genesis). As for her face, it's only a few pixels of a 6000x5000 picture.

What about the dragon?

[Anonymous No.1935211]

>>1935208

Thank you, although at this stage it would be easier to move the landscape...

As for the anatomy? Indeed, there is a lot to learn. But I figured that if I use a Daz Genesis as a reference model, it would help.

[Anonymous No.1935212]

>>1935171

Both woman and dragon are so stiff and unnatural. No amount of fancy rendering and textures can hide thag.

[Anonymous No.1935214]

Anyway, here is an earlier version of the same rider, before I started adding the clothing.

I think the new one is better, but who knows.

[Anonymous No.1935222]

>>1935211
You can easily chop the tail off, rotate it, and fill the in-between. I should also add that there is some knowledge of light and color that is missing in the piece. Follow your reference closer too.

[Anonymous No.1935227]

If you told me this was the worst painting you'd ever seen I wouldn't be too surprised. I'm starting to get a bit discouraged, when I try to draw from imagination it always ends up looking like shit.

[Anonymous No.1935229]

flowers yall

[Anonymous No.1935230]

>>1935214
>>1935174
>>1935171
everything is messed up and this >>1935212

but kudos for doing it

[Anonymous No.1935238]

>>1935124

lol

[Anonymous No.1935261]

>>1935205
I like this. I feel like the edge of his coat, where he's got his hand in his pocket could be defined just a little clearer though.

[Anonymous No.1935265]

Cut me down /ic/, all I want is to get better.
Started as a basic gesture drawing, fleshed it out. Used a torn up ink cartridge from a micron pen for the black blocks. Couldn't help but be emo with teh redz. <///3

[Anonymous No.1935267]

[Anonymous No.1935273]

>>1935174
Try making her nose stand out less, especially that dark area where it meets up with the cheeks. That might help to being back some beauty to her face. Just play around with it on a separate layer and see what works

[Anonymous No.1935280]

I need some help making these clouds look dynamic and more, stormy, rather than saturated. I had the idea, but can't seem to execute it. I've been using SAI but have access to CS6.

[Anonymous No.1935285]

>>1935229
doodling

[Anonymous No.1935289]

>>1935280

define the clouds. Use a ref also.

Your main issue is you're not using flats. Use flat colors then blend them in.

technique for clouds in sai are use the brush tool or the pen tool and then the watercolor brush or blend tool.

Marker tool is also pretty good.

I'd draw the thing out. Also learn about composition.

GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND

a simple 'How to paint stormy clouds (on sai)' helps you in finding a simple step by step tutorial.

[Anonymous No.1935309]

[Anonymous No.1935312]

>>1935267
>not named merc wip.
The perspective of the front half of the gun seems really off.

[Anonymous No.1935322]

>>1935309
Why are you still scribbling your values in?
Again, the initial looks much more appealing because it looks less like scribbles but more purposeful.

Every stroke should have a purpose, and try to do it all in one stroke rather than messy scribbles.

Also push your values some more.


It doesn't really look like you put much effort into these and seem like you're rushing and forcing them.

[Anonymous No.1935349]

>>1935309
What he said >>1935322

Use a bigger brush, and focus on defining the major forms first. One approach would be an egg-like form for the head, with some definition of the eye socket with a sphere, a blocky protrusion for the nose, and the softer protrusion for where the mouth will go. Once those forms are solid, work your way down to smaller and smaller forms.

You could alternatively define everything with a drawing - it can be loose or tight but the shapes and proportions need to be correct. Then paint over that while continuously trying to recover the drawing.

Right now it looks like you scribble in values as you see them from the ref, then keep going until you get closer to something that looks like the ref. It doesn't look like you're taking forms into consideration enough. Try to use one value for each plane, then soften edges as needed. Paint some Asaro heads to get a feel for these planes.

[Anonymous No.1935358]

Not really sure what's wrong with this painting.

[Anonymous No.1935361]

12/1000 :D

[Anonymous No.1935368]

>>1935349
is the author of >>1935358 painting.

[Anonymous No.1935372]

>>1935358
1. the construction of the face and the proportions.
2. the nose doesnt work that way.
3. eyes doesnt work that wat.
4. beards doesnt work that way
5. clothes doesnt work that way.
Do some loomis

[Anonymous No.1935373]

>>1935227
I understand how you're feeling. I was the same way. Always blocked. DO NOT give up though. Keep drawing. It will be worth it.

[Anonymous No.1935385]

>>1935372
thanks for the tips
>>1935368
not really actually...

[Anonymous No.1935421]

Struggling with a mouse :( To come this far to be hindered... like this...

[Anonymous No.1935429]

>>1935421
>Struggling with a mouse
>mouse
I hope you have good ergonomics, because that's an easy way to fuck up your wrist.

Personally I'd stick with traditional media.

[Anonymous No.1935449]

>>1935421
thats actual pretty good, the lips and the lighting on the face solid, even looks like hair on the face, I wouldnt have the patience with a mouse and never really tried, could lead to carpal tunnel, otherwise invest in wacom, even a second hand graphite tablet would be better then a mouse

[Anonymous No.1935460]

>>1935214
your put a lot of hard work into this, and good on ya, but like others have said its stiff and unnatural, to get a more flowing, natural lively feel to a character is do gesture, go to pixel lovely do a thousand 30sec - 1min poses and youll see the improvement also google ryan woodward just to see how he does his gesture lines to get an idea,

[Anonymous No.1935470]

>>1935322
>>1935349

Thanks for the crit, I felt that this was better then my other ones thus far.

I am trying to do it quickly, I stop them at at an hour. Should I work more into it?

Your right about scribbling values and not paying attention to form. I'm going to work on some Asaro heads and come back to it.

[Anonymous No.1935476]

Wasn't gonna ink it which is why it is so rendered. Now I changed my mind. So it is back to being a WIP.

[Anonymous No.1935494]

>>1935084
these flowers are dying. already had to throw out one of the carnations

[Anonymous No.1935509]

>>1935163
looks alright, constructions there except for the eyes, almost looks cross eyed, also maybe add lighter and darker values to make the picture pop, looks to mono value, no real lights or darks

[Anonymous No.1935688]

First it was going to be a panel for a short comic. Then it was going to be a pin-up. Then it was going to be a portrait painting. But now I see the expression isn't becoming of her at all for a portrait and instead of looking arrogant she looks dispirited. Fuck. Now all it's good for is getting an idea of her palette.

[Anonymous No.1935711]

An update from the previous thread. Kind of unsure how to resolve the other leg.

[Anonymous No.1935765]

[Anonymous No.1935768]

>>1935688
Goddamn man, do your art a favor and up the size of your canvas. I don't give a fuck what it is, if you have any respect for yourself or your art, you'll do it.

You can always make shit smaller. Doesn't work so well the other way around.

[Anonymous No.1935809]

still prefeer painting straight with values

>>1935183
>>1935180
thanks! i will practice exprssions

[Anonymous No.1935836]

this is better right?

>yes

ok thanks

[Anonymous No.1935851]

>>1935836
Elipse on the plant pot.
Looks like its not grounded

[Anonymous No.1935852]

>>1935836
>>1935851
In referance to the tiles on the ground

[Anonymous No.1935862]

>>1935851
>>1935852

ah yeah, there's several perspective issues there still. entire plant is still in progress.

[Anonymous No.1935863]

Critiques? Any suggestions on how to color this piece?

[Anonymous No.1935865]

>>1935863
create a new layer under the linework and color "underneath" it or export to MS Paint and use color bucket tool extension database interface

[Anonymous No.1935875]

>>1935865
wtf are you on..are you 12,
>>1935863
start again/ read the sticky

[Anonymous No.1935892]

>>1935863
Use clipping masks/Play with layers
>>1935875
Worst advice ever

[Anonymous No.1935895]

>>1935882
are you the same person as >>1935875 and >>1935873 ?
the same dunning kruger who pretends to know more than anyone, but never actually proves his smarts? how old are you? (just want to confirm if my hunch is correct)

[Anonymous No.1935901]

>>1935836
The photo texture for the floor is too obvious.
Just make it a carpet, it would be far easier to fit in.

[Anonymous No.1935904]

>>1935863
I'd start by deleting it then going to posemaniacs.com and doing 200 30-second poses. It will take you an hour and a half. Then draw this again and be shocked at your improvement!
Do you want to get better? then what are you waiting for, do it now!

[Anonymous No.1935911]

just found out about the ic version in 16/2 chan

[Anonymous No.1935918]

>>1935911
delete your post now
dont ebin-kill the safe haven

[Anonymous No.1935924]

>>1935178
>>1935203
>>1935208
>>1935212
>>1935222
>>1935230
>>1935273

Thank you for the advice.

Welp. Being a beginner sucks. But oh well, back to the drawing board. I'll modify the hat, although the composition will probably remain the same; too much effort has been spent at it, I can't just discard the project. But for the next painting (which will be the third such painting of my entire life which I will actually finish, this one shall be the second) I'll keep the ideas concerning the composition and the dynamics in mind.

Anyway, here is how it started.

[Anonymous No.1935943]

>>1935309
>>1935470
>I am trying to do it quickly
what's the hurry? take your time.

[Anonymous No.1935944]

Tried to color grayscale

[Anonymous No.1935964]

>>1935372
red line for back of head doesn't look right.

[Anonymous No.1936059]

How do I speed up this process? I could do this in a little under an hour and that is too damn long.

[Anonymous No.1936097]

>>1935144
Use more values or it will seem like she is in fog.

[Anonymous No.1936148]

>>1935123
I don't think he's being held back at all, he fucking rocks

[Anonymous No.1936167]

>>1936148
>>1935130

i like his work too, and he is definitely one of the better posters on /ic/ but if he wants to get to a point where he can describe surface and form with this degree of accuracy >>1936076 (im referring to the pic in the op, i believe by ruanjia) then he needs to start worrying about shape and form, and light more, and less about superficial brushwork. that's all i meant, sorry for not elaborating sooner.

[Anonymous No.1936175]

>>1936097
This goddamn contrast make it worse.

[Anonymous No.1936198]

>>1935944
I like it, I would make the skull more gnarly, looks too much like a giant human rather than an ogre or some other humanoid

[Anonymous No.1936203]

[Anonymous No.1936206]

practicing super quick facial expressions can you clearly see disgust?

[Anonymous No.1936242]

>>1936206
I can definitely tell it's some sort of surprise, though reading disgust is a bit harder, especially when it's smaller. I might try making the closer eye the scrunched up one, as well as raising the nose and furrowing the brow a fair bit.

[Anonymous No.1936255]

>>1936206
You may not have actually tried to do the face yourself. You'll notice that when you try it it makes no sense

[Anonymous No.1936263]

>>1936206
wacky youtube animator tier drawing

[Anonymous No.1936267]

>>1936198
Thanks, I painted skull from a real one, but I'll try to make it look more unhuman

[Anonymous No.1936268]

[Anonymous No.1936269]

>>1936242
Thanks for the advice, I was having alot of trouble with trying to decipher what was missing; I owe you one!

[Anonymous No.1936318]

>>1935901

hm you've made me self conscious about the photo texture entirely. not sure if it looks cheap or passable. tried to just paint over it but it made it worse. might throw a carpet ontop to ease out some areas. was that what you were suggesting?

[Anonymous No.1936335]

>>1936318
Not that anon, but his right hand/wrist is doing something funky. It looks like his palm is either very thin or it's awkwardly wrapped around the club. Cool work though, good luck finishing it.

[Anonymous No.1936341]

>>1936318

The perspective of the figure doesn't match the environment. Also the floor tiles look unrealistically big.

[Anonymous No.1936342]

[Anonymous No.1936398]

>>1936175
the contrast makes it appear worse because it undoes a lot of the blending. However it is a technically more sound and can be set right by (surprise surprise) more blending

[Anonymous No.1936455]

>>1936342
flowers flowers flowers muh fuckin flowers

[Anonymous No.1936459]

Stuff I drew today

[Anonymous No.1936471]

Perspective drawing. Used the perspective tool from sketchbook pro so the lines aren't freehand.

[Anonymous No.1936474]

>>1936455
>>1936342
Interesting. Some what unrelated because I have no critique for you, however it reminded me of something. I was at a restaurant once and on the wall there were a bunch of shitty cat drawings. They were like cartoonish but like made up of different things.

They were somewhat small like on postcard 6x4 with shitty frames. And selling for like 5$.

Anyway, back to your drawings.
>10/10 would look at on a restaurant wall and consider buying for 5$ but ultimately decide against it.

[Anonymous No.1936481]

>>1936459

website?

[Anonymous No.1936488]

[Anonymous No.1936497]

Inked in all the parts I want. The lightning and magic circle will be completely colored instead out outlined in black. This is my second ever inked picture. I need to work on my cross hatching and the shading lines. Getting them to a fine point is rough.
I am using a brush pen instead of ink and a regular brush. Should I switch over before I learn completely with a brush pen?

[Anonymous No.1936504]

>>1936497

digital fag so i cant answer your question, but keep going id like to see the final

[Anonymous No.1936505]

>>1936497
Well hot damn does it look that much better inked. I was very skeptical of the pencil shading at first, but good job.

[Anonymous No.1936520]

>>1936497
I found brushpen good for loosening up, but for controlled, precise inking, pick up a brush and ink. If you can still find them- Windsor and Newton Series 7 brushes!

[Anonymous No.1936544]

I'm still working on it but I was wondering if the lighting was working on the dog

[Anonymous No.1936547]

>>1936497
Why are you making an exact copy of a drawing that someone made?

[Anonymous No.1936566]

>>1936544
the lighting was working on everything but the dog

[Anonymous No.1936567]

>>1936505
Thanks. Yeah, it looks much better inked. The pencil shading doesn't really do it justice.

>>1936520
Thanks for the advice. I was not sure what brushes to pick up. Ink-wise, I go for archival right? And I see a lot of comic book inkers go for those little squirt bottle looking containers. Helps with controlling the amount of ink you pour out for large areas and drybrushing. Know anything about those?

[Anonymous No.1936568]

>>1936520
Also, should I go for a few different sizes or just one or two?

[Anonymous No.1936575]

>>1936544
That's a weird frickin dog. Also it looks like it's made out of gold or something.

[Anonymous No.1936576]

>>1936566

What exactly is wrong about the lighting? I'm trying to figure out what my mistake here is.

[Anonymous No.1936579]

Still working on this, any feedback is appreciated

Never attempted lighting from this angle, so I probably fucked something up

[Anonymous No.1936580]

>>1936579
fuck you it ate my image

[Anonymous No.1936583]

>>1936520
What size brushes should I go for? They are expensive, but I assume super worth it. And I should look for archival ink, correct? I see some comic book inkers use these little squirt bottle containers for their ink to control how much they put onto the paper for large areas or dry brushing. Any thoughts on those?

>>1936504
Thanks. Will do.

>>1936505
Yeah, it feels much better inked. The pencil shading didn't do is justice.

Should I just say fuck it and ink the lightning and magic circle? I can always photoshop out the black outlines, but it feels really incompletely right now.

[Anonymous No.1936585]

>>1936580
Why do you have harsh values beside your highlights? Is his head made out of metal?

Really, learn your values and shadows. You should be able to describe form only using shadows.

[Anonymous No.1936586]

>>1936175
>>1936097
The anon is right, the values needed to be pushed, after they are set/blocked in then you render down the slightly smaller parts and so on.

[Anonymous No.1936588]

>>1936585
Stylistic choice, but I can change it if it looks glaringly wrong. Trying for something between Shinkawa's inkwork and my own painting style.

[Anonymous No.1936590]

>>1936588
So you want to describe forms both with lines and values?

Well, that's an interesting choice and a thing to tackle before you have mastered either but I'm not going to say anything against it. Experiment and good luck anon, but I still suggest to look into understanding light, shadow and form more after this piece.

[Anonymous No.1936594]

The last time I used acrylics was almost 2 years ago, sorry for all that white

[Anonymous No.1936615]

I traced a still from a vid, and plan on coloring it for a b-day present.

I've been stuck resketching the face and the arms because they aren't coming out right to me. I feel like I'm stuck in the lineart loop where I can't get the face to look the way it should.

Perfection is not the goal, but neither is half-assing it. How do you know a face is going to come out the best it can be? or whatever?

[Anonymous No.1936620]

[Anonymous No.1936628]

>>1936620
Nice tracing????????????

[Anonymous No.1936629]

>>1936615
>traced

[Anonymous No.1936637]

I've got this.

[Anonymous No.1936638]

>>1935174
She has 4 fingers

[Anonymous No.1936650]

>>1936615
>tracing
>not halfassed

I've got bad news for you.

[Anonymous No.1936654]

>>1936398
>>1936586
Still I don't think such contrast is needed.

[Anonymous No.1936678]

>>1935836
lights above him. Hope this helps

[Anonymous No.1936682]

>>1935944
>>1935944
>>1936198
shadow consistency. Your shadows change light source here and there and nothing cast shadows.

[Anonymous No.1936686]

>>1936678

Cool that you are trying to help anon, but i don't think this is any better.

[Anonymous No.1936687]

>>1936654
contrast is always needed dawg, look around you,
there is always pitch black and super bright somewhere once your eyes have adjusted

if you want a super smooth white marble statue then your gunna hafta put black somewhere else other wise it looks pale and unfinished for sure

[Anonymous No.1936693]

>>1936678
>>1935836
>>1936686
the first one may seem slightly more dramatic but it doesn't seem to account where the light is actually coming from. It makes the dude seem copy and pasted in instead of actually part of the scene. IF you wan there to be cool light coming upwards than have the light on the desk.

[Anonymous No.1936694]

>>1936687
no, you're wrong

[Anonymous No.1936696]

>>1935121
How does one achieve this kind of painterly look?

[Anonymous No.1936699]

>>1936687
no you are definitely wrong. Contrast tells you how intense the lightsource is compared to surroundings.

[Anonymous No.1936700]

Warmup thing
>without refferinos

[Anonymous No.1936705]

>>1936693
>>1936678
>>1936686
Is this more what you are going for?

[Anonymous No.1936707]

how is my anatomy?

[Anonymous No.1936708]

[Anonymous No.1936712]

wip

nose is a bit blurry, i know that
>>1936203
keep your values cleaner

>>1936488
not bad but i feel i seen this image 1000 times in the past already

[Anonymous No.1936713]

>>1936707
head is way too big. Don't know what's happening with the forearms and hands. Some things can be a bit thicker or thinner, like the calves and thighs. I like the rest.

[Anonymous No.1936717]

>>1936712
so smoothe i like it

[Anonymous No.1936722]

>>1936705

This kinda DOES make more sense, but I'm not sure if it makes for a better illustration.

[Anonymous No.1936735]

[Anonymous No.1936741]

>>1936735
nice.
I like it. I would use it as an under painting to give my photoshop painting life

[Anonymous No.1936750]

>>1935174
You ever consider playing with the lighting to alter the mood? It seems like a pretty bland scene despite the fact she's some Amazon chick riding a dragon. :/ Just my 2 cents

[Anonymous No.1936775]

[Anonymous No.1936796]

>>1936700
this reminds me of giger for some reason

[Anonymous No.1936800]

[Anonymous No.1936805]

>>1935361
That's not how legs work

[Anonymous No.1936829]

>>1936615
>traced
you are stuck because volume is absent in your work.

[Anonymous No.1936834]

>>1936620
that looks photobashed anon.
when a car turns, its the wheel and not the whole front

[Anonymous No.1936849]

>>1936615
how do you suck at tracing. Literally failing a test with the answers circled

[Anonymous No.1936881]

Right eye is bigger in the sketch but other then that I think it's going okay

[Anonymous No.1936882]

>>1935711
Try solving her butt first, it might loosen you up on ideas.

[Anonymous No.1936926]

>>1936849
Making lineart of a picture taken IRL, without making it look like a shitty trace is actually really hard.

How do you avoid making it look like an obvious trace?

[Anonymous No.1936930]

>>1936717
Thank you, will uptade tomorrow

[Anonymous No.1936940]

>>1936926
Not tracing it and actually studying forms and volume

[Anonymous No.1936967]

small heads

[Anonymous No.1936968]

I wasted too many time too figure out how to do the ships body, Finally I found a way to work it out, I hope it gets better from here.

[Anonymous No.1936969]

recent shit, anatomy is little bit fucked,
too lazy to finish

[Anonymous No.1936972]

>>1936969

I like it

[Anonymous No.1936983]

>>1936969

like it too. and it bothers me that i can't tell who you are. there's some issues but i'm sure you are aware of them yourself.

[Anonymous No.1937032]

>>1936474
"shitty cat drawing/10" - Anon

getting a lot of good feedback so far. keep it coming

[Anonymous No.1937038]

>>1936968
Anon this is awesome. I really like your color picks.

>>1936969
This is some solid shit. Good job.

[Anonymous No.1937042]

>>1936972
Thanks.
I'm not used to show up on /ic/ often.

[Anonymous No.1937073]

.

[Anonymous No.1937074]

There was talk about comfort zone. Painting is not in my comfort zone. I want it to be though.

However, how far away can you go from your comfort zone before you're not improving at all?

[Anonymous No.1937076]

>>1937074
32 metres

[Anonymous No.1937080]

>>1937073
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

[Anonymous No.1937110]

>>1937074

the more frustrating it is, the more benefecial it is.

[Anonymous No.1937138]

I feel...ok about this. Definitely some issues.

[Anonymous No.1937145]

>>1935358
2nd portrait

[Anonymous No.1937155]

>>1937145
Focus on drawing, not painting for now. Find images of an Asaro head and study it to learn the proportions and major planes of the head.

If you want to paint anything, I suggest you paint more from life to build up your visual library - including painting believable light. Grab a mirror and a lamp, and do a few self portraits as well.

[Anonymous No.1937156]

Playing around with the concept of void bolt spells.

[Anonymous No.1937159]

hummingbirds wooooooo

[Anonymous No.1937219]

>>1937169
maybe someone could give me advice on the composition of this one?

[Anonymous No.1937248]

made a little process thing to showcase my abyssmal and directionless workflow

thanks for all the useful comments i got on this image.

[Anonymous No.1937300]

i'm so sorry /ic/, i was gonna study for real today but i just couldn't help myself ;O;

[Anonymous No.1937311]

im fucking this up. help pls

[Anonymous No.1937316]

>>1937300

ha! apologize to yourself faggot. we are just thankful that your prolonged mediocrity makes us all look that much more amazing. hehe.

[Anonymous No.1937317]

im fuckin this up. help pls.

[Anonymous No.1937350]

>>1936654
Pictures are not a real representation of life. You should never aim to copy a picture, you should learn from it. Not to mention that picture has high iso, giving it grain and low value range.

Values give you so much form if you use them correctly, and shadows will always be dark no matter what created them, you have to use these form & cast shadows to give your piece the illusion of form.

Values are so important I can talk about them the whole day. You should learn to construct with values if you could, never contours. It will even help you with likeness.

[Anonymous No.1937391]

[Anonymous No.1937432]

[Anonymous No.1937433]

lazy sketeches

[Anonymous No.1937437]

Hatch in the rest of the cast shadows in your sketches, it will give it some semblance of depth since your sketches are very good.

[Anonymous No.1937439]

I hope the lighting is more clear.

[Anonymous No.1937440]

>>1937317
>>1937432
Damn, I'm not going to sleep well tonight.

[Anonymous No.1937442]

>>1937155

oke

[Anonymous No.1937446]

more practice hatching with 005 micron. I'm thinking about switching over to brush since all m idols seem to use it.

[Anonymous No.1937454]

>>1937440
I'll take that as a compliment

[Anonymous No.1937463]

>>1937442
Now that I look back at this, I dun goofed the values of some surfaces. I'll be fixing this shit tomorz.

[Anonymous No.1937474]

>>1937463
Start a new one tomorrow instead.

[Anonymous No.1937483]

>>1937446
Let you be you, baby boo

[Anonymous No.1937522]

>>1937483
thx bb<3

[Anonymous No.1937542]

study of a mug.

[Anonymous No.1937563]

[Anonymous No.1937618]

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[Anonymous No.1937619]

>>1937442
desaturating the reference photo might make it a little easier.

[Anonymous No.1937622]

>>1936682
Thanks, is it better?

[Anonymous No.1937628]

>>1935924

>Beginner

I don't think you understand what that term means.

[Anonymous No.1937631]

>>1937628
Explain it

[Anonymous No.1937633]

>>1935084
We are all gonna make it

[Anonymous No.1937635]

>>1937631

If you can do that well you're clearly not a beginner. Beginners are people who have no, or very little prior experience. The people who don't draw the skeletal lines things like >>1935230 and >>1935372 when they draw something are beginners. People with no understanding at all of proportion or anatomy, lighting and shading, etc. are beginners.

Pretty much people in middle/high school or people without talent are beginners. You're very clearly at least an intermediate.

[Anonymous No.1937637]

>>1937635
>>1937631

The front page of deviantart is full of beginner material.

>>1935174

is exponentially better than pic related

[Anonymous No.1937640]

WIP grisaille underpainting of study. Fingertips and stuff in the palm of the hand still needs to be done

[Anonymous No.1937648]

>>1936735
tumblr?

[Anonymous No.1937699]

>>1937637
Dat copyright tho.

[Anonymous No.1937979]

test bump

[Anonymous No.1938066]

This is mostly from the head, so I'm looking for anything that looks wonky. I know there are some parts of the helmet that look messed up. Anything else? Is it too dark?

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!

[Anonymous No.1938070]

I'd like to get opinions on the composition and general value and such of this. It's Simon Belmont facing off against Dracula... if you can't tell.

[Anonymous No.1938073]

>>1936471
Reminds me of CTRL+paint or some other vid I watched a while back.

I like it.

[Anonymous No.1938075]

>>1937433
I like em, blog?

[Anonymous No.1938135]

[Anonymous No.1938155]

>>1938066
I dig it. Here are my first impressions.
- Black border is not even
- Guitar indent is too small
- What is the whitish thing on the left? A cloud? it looks out of place.
- Work on the antennas a bit. Give them some backlighting, straighten them a bit, and fix the tops.

The rest looks pretty darn good! Just render it a bit more and I think you're golden.

[Anonymous No.1938160]

>>1937317
Paint with full opacity and make big, confident strokes. The low opacity and blotchiness of your brush work makes him look like he's viciously vibrating.

[Anonymous No.1938162]

Doing some practices

[Anonymous No.1938163]

>>1936968
This is great. The colors remind me of Mirror's Edge. For such a clear day why is it so blurry by the sea? There really wouldn't be that much fog.

[Anonymous No.1938166]

>>1937350
I don't use contours in my studies, usually start from the spot, but I see your point.

[Anonymous No.1938167]

Some quick paint practice shit, I gotta get better at pushing colors, anatomy is a bit off but that wasn't the focus.

[Anonymous No.1938178]

Thoughts?
I've been having some trouble with the lighting of the tree in the background. First it was all white, but that was too eye grabbing for me, then it was the same shades of blue as the stag, but that seemed to bright. I just darkened it but it still seems wrong. How do I fix it?
And is there anything else I'm missing? I've been staring at it for too long.

[Anonymous No.1938181]

>>1938178
take the blue from the elk and dot the tree with it. The tree can share the same color, just with smaller, more scattered details.

[Anonymous No.1938185]

>>1938181
Like this? This definitely looks the best out of everything I've tried.

[Anonymous No.1938186]

Help me /ic/. I dont know if the leg looks right, and I dont know how to draw the back leg. Hes supposed to be on a hover board or something

[Anonymous No.1938213]

[Anonymous No.1938276]

>>1938185
Watch your edges and analyze the form.

[Anonymous No.1938279]

Render studies. Cylinders in top light. I'm using sunlight as the light source.

[Anonymous No.1938294]

This here is a proboscis monkey.

[LP No.1938314]

Update from a couple threads back; the fabric is giving me a rough time of things!

[Anonymous No.1938317]

>>1938294
where's his boner

[Anonymous No.1938322]

>>1938314

fucking juicy. but what is new? i don't see any changes ?? your strokes are gorgeous but there's not much there to look at.

[Anonymous No.1938325]

>>1938314
You're doing great!
Only thing I can say is that the arm is a tiny bit stiff, but that's nitpicking.
When you finish everything else, you can go back to it and just give it a bit more life.
Maybe work on the foot a little more, make it a bit smaller as well?
Otherwise, everything looks great!

[LP No.1938329]

>>1938322
Thanks! This is what it was, for reference.

>>1938325
Thank you! I agree -- I'm trying to finish this up tonight, actually, so it's something I hope to get back around to.

[LP No.1938331]

>>1938329
I should add that in this post is the correct orientation, I just happened to have it flipped while working on it.

[Anonymous No.1938336]

>>1938314
That dress doesn't really look much like fabric. You're going overkill on the rendering and making it look a bit like corrugated metal. Check out some Sorolla. The trees in the back are nice though and the figure is nice too, good work dude!

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.1938343]

>>1938135
I really really like this. Nice colours, nice composition, nice technique, nice narrative. I love it.

[Anonymous No.1938348]

>>1938135
Love it, reminds me of Bernie Fuchs' work

[Anonymous No.1938425]

>>1938317
dunno

[Anonymous No.1938443]

>>1935084
Gestures. Am I doing it right? :/

[Anonymous No.1938463]

>>1938443
no

[Anonymous No.1938466]

>>1938443
Too angular, you're not feeling the pose

[Anonymous No.1938469]

>>1938443
Looks like you're trying to copy proko shit.

[Anonymous No.1938477]

>>1938443
i like it, bra

[Anonymous No.1938484]

>>1938443
Th whole point of gesture is to convey movement, you're doing that.

>>1938463
>>1938466
>>1938469

can be disregarded.

[Anonymous No.1938492]

>>1937032
"shitty cat drawing"

>kek

dude these are amazing

[Anonymous No.1938501]

>>1938443
I like these a lot, though the one in the bottom left looks wonky. Designing the figure during gesture is a good thing, and you're doing just that.

Pic related are some gestures I did the other day, they're not that great though. Focusing too much on small detail is a hurdle I need to get over.

[Anonymous No.1938516]

>>1938501
Mui thai videos?

[Anonymous No.1938524]

I just drew this..?

[Anonymous No.1938528]

>>1935476
10/10

[Anonymous No.1938535]

any glaring errors before i continue?

[Anonymous No.1938542]

>>1938501
Nah, a promo video for SF: Assasin's Fist.

[Anonymous No.1938554]

>>1936206
please PLEASE dont make a bunch of these and start using them as reaction images in the hope that it catches on.

[Anonymous No.1938555]

the flowers died. so now im just working from memory until i can get new ones tomorrow. any suggestions for flowers?

[Anonymous No.1938556]

>>1938555
they were falling apart it was tragic.

[Anonymous No.1938560]

>>1938443
you're doin it right but it feels like youre more concerned people liking the line quality when you could be really FEELIN IT

[Anonymous No.1938566]

I still have Fetch on the mind.
I didnt legit try on this, so it looks shitty.

But, with this, I know what she basically looks like and I bet I could make some sweet 34 of her

[Anonymous No.1938567]

>>1938535

the titties are a bit on the extreme side. not tasteful imo.

[Anonymous No.1938568]

>>1938567
not sure that she's the most tasteful lady, friend

[Anonymous No.1938589]

>>1938466
>>1938484
>>1938501
>>1938560
Thanks. I'll going like this & try more to "feel" it (maybe by sketching from life or so)

[Anonymous No.1938602]

cant decide colors yet

[Anonymous No.1938605]

>>1938535
Feet too big, Eyes too low, painting solely with a soft brush. Otherwise good.

[Anonymous No.1938606]

>>1938186
look up surfers or snowboarders as a reference for the legs man.

[Anonymous No.1938613]

>>1938343
>>1938348
Thanks y'all :) I'm glad Bernie Fuchs came to mind- he's a real inspiration to me along with the other mid-century illustrators.

[Anonymous No.1938615]

Rip me apart, I haven't drawn anything in ages so I'm rusty as hell.
Ripley is heavily referenced by that one picture from aliens, but as a movie I liked alien more so I gave her the hairstyle and costume from that.
Her arms suck ass I need to work on those, and the flamethrower is killing me.
Help pls.

[Anonymous No.1938616]

>>1938167
Pushed a bit further, still kinda eh on it.

[Anonymous No.1938619]

>>1938066
The construction and idea are great. Only thing is the values and in some part, the colors. Everything from the line down gets real muddy. I'd suggest all that stuff that's in shadow, just go with a midtone and a dark dark. Everything above use a bright bright/highlight and a midtone, with maybe one more lighter or darker value in there. If you can get that down try and get the colors/temperature to go with those values - cooler in the shadier/darker areas, warmer in lighter etc...

Awesome for imagination sopaceing man

[Anonymous No.1938668]

>>1938616
That's nice but that katana is upside down.

[Anonymous No.1938673]

>>1937159

I see your work a lot on this board and I absolutely love it. Awesome work anon. It always feels so lively, and I like how you incorporate so many line widths.

[LP No.1938684]

>>1938314
Update. Almost ready to call it done -- if you guys see anything that bother you, have at it. Cleaning up some other work to take my eyes off it for a little bit.

[Anonymous No.1938686]

Trying to create heads from imagination, but the proportions seems to go haywire.

[Anonymous No.1938689]

>>1938684
fucking DOPE

keep it up man

[Anonymous No.1938693]

>>1938684
The hand kind of ruins it. It feel like you're working too small to get it properly detailed. I would expand the canvas just to render it better and then size it back down again.
The brownish background and the grove feels great though.

[Anonymous No.1938696]

>>1938684
love the tone and the colors dude

[Anonymous No.1938730]

>>1938684

Have to agree with >>1938693

There is great movement in this piece but the stiffness of the hand and arm ruin it.

[Anonymous No.1938736]

>>1938155
>>1938619

Thanks so much for these. They were really specific and helpful. and exactly what I needed from another pair of eyes. Good call on the guitar indent too - didn't even notice it. I've also tried fixing some of the values and such. I wanted that whole area to be lower value, but I'll work on making it less muddy.

I'll post the updated version in the next DrawThread. Thanks again!

[Anonymous No.1938746]

>>1935084
how to make pretty lines?
its easy for me to render and whatnot but if i want to leave it with just lines, it looks awful
speciallly girl faces
and never really understood the lineweight concept
any help with this?

[Anonymous No.1938756]

>>1938746

your lines are bulky, you're stopping them abruptly and you're using too much pressure. reduce the size of your brush a little, and try to finish your lines with less pressure than the middle. I don't know how to explain this well, but it gives a more natural line quality.
maybe you can tweak some settings in the software you're using.

[Anonymous No.1938764]

trying to do buildings.

[Anonymous No.1938767]

>>1938764

perspective mate. you think this is a motherfucking game?

[Anonymous No.1938772]

First time using charcoal. It's hard to use but awesome.

[Anonymous No.1938774]

[Anonymous No.1938776]

>>1938774
is this like a play on the word cardinal?
radical?

[Anonymous No.1938779]

>>1938776
lol. no, but it works!

[Anonymous No.1938781]

>>1938779
Time to be a modern art columnist.

[Anonymous No.1938783]

>>1938767
but it's so haard.... :(

can I cheat with photoshop. I know... I'll see myself out.

[Anonymous No.1938784]

>>1938783
nah man what he meant by perspective was that you should use multiple vanishing points, because it's pretty flat as it is right now, and more variety with how your shapes are positioned within the picture.

[Anonymous No.1938787]

>>1938783
>what is sketchup

[Ryan Seacrest No.1938807]

>>1938787
No, thanks, I'll take smayo

[Anonymous No.1938813]

Skull studies, for the glory of Satan.

[Anonymous No.1938815]

>>1938813

[Anonymous No.1938818]

>>1938783
I like the style (very Half-Life 2), but yeah... your perspective is totally wrong. The two things on the sides of the center building are showing the top, when they should be showing the bottom. Do some basic perspective studies.

[Anonymous No.1938819]

>>1938815
post ref

[LP No.1938888]

>>1938693
>>1938730

I agree with you guys. Does it feel stiff as in posed? Flawed gesture? Both? I'm having problems seeing it right now -- I've been working for like 12+ hours already. Appreciate the critique. The file is certainly big enough that I can get in there and paint what I need.

>>1938689
>>1938696
Appreciate the compliments!

[Anonymous No.1939006]

Help me /ic/, how can I make the statue look more realistic, with more realistic lightning??

[Anonymous No.1939029]

I started testing a photoshop brush and this came out

>>1939006
Maybe some white reflections in the statue?

[Anonymous No.1939030]

>>1939006
You could make a little sculpey, but you'd have to have at least a little sculpting knowledge

[Anonymous No.1939033]

>>1939006
Its the focal point so I recommend that you render it especially the reflected lighlight. but also add atmospheric fog to the background aka the mountains. and I would create harder edges on the buildings in the foreground to create day a sense of depth.

[Anonymous No.1939045]

>>1938815
2nd ref request, nice work there

[Anonymous No.1939075]

>>1938783
If you're planning on changing the composition I think a low but distant shot like this would show the scale really well.
Maybe add a person for a reference for the scale.

[Anonymous No.1939091]

>>1938819
>>1939045

[Anonymous No.1939095]

>>1938185
What sort of brush do you use for this effect?

Looks great!

[LP No.1939139]

>>1938684
Done with this one. Might not be the strongest in my folio, but I'm happy to have pushed through to finish it. Learned a lot working through it all!

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback -- appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.1939181]

[Anonymous No.1939241]

>>1939091
thanks buddy good luck!

>>1939139
actually my friend this might be one of my favorite images I've ever seen on this website. regardless of the nitpicky issues people pointed out earlier. It's just visually impacting. I dig it.

[Anonymous No.1939374]

>>1939181
you have her lips turnt up a bit too much, her (upper cheek?) under her left eye is also a bit fatter than the ref.

i think there might be too much space in between the eyes but that could just be the scale

[Anonymous No.1939376]

>>1939374
>>1939181
oh and its looking really good so far, almost indistinguishable in the thumbnail

[Anonymous No.1939380]

>>1939181
heh some more knitpicking, her right eyebrow should be a bit higher, and the mouth dimple thing is angled too low, which is due in part to the entire jaw being shift to the right of her face.

[Anonymous No.1939388]

New Thread:
>>1939387
>>1939387
>>1939387

[Anonymous No.1939476]

>>1939181
Head is horizontally stretched

[Anonymous No.1939623]

>>1935084
these never give me nightmares

[Anonymous No.1939986]

friggin love ms paint

[Anonymous No.1940508]

>>1938524
Don't Draw eyelashes individually and eye is never shaped like that you are still basically drawing with symbols they are just more ''advanced''

[Anonymous No.1940712]

>>1939139
Looks way better with the hand changes. Would love to see the feet more noticeable, they are what keep the figure from looking stiff, but I didn't even see them at first. Imagine how rigid she looks if you don't notice the feet.

[Anonymous No.1940713]

[Anonymous No.1941301]

>>1935174
Never ever use airbrush to render. it looks like horse shit, use a thick brush and render it out by hand. example: